Device for holding bills and the like.



110,883,317. PATBNTED MAR; 31, 1908. A. T. KINDWALL.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING BILLS AND THE LIKE.

' APPLIGATION FILED DBO. 21, 1907.

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AXEL T. KINDWALL, OF ALBERT CITY, IOWA.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING BILLS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 81, 1908.

Application filed December 21, 1907, Serial No. 407,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AXEL T. KINDWALL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Al bert City, in the county of Buena Vista and State ofIowa, have invented a new and useful Device for Holding Bills and theLike, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to devices for holding bills and similardocuments and it leaf ol flexible material such, for instance, as

linen or heavy paper with a series of apertures cut therein and. aspring clasp located at each aperture. The clasps are of peculiarconfiguration and are held in position in the openings provided in thesheet by a transversely disposed thread or other flexible securing meanswhich is attached at its ends to the sheet and passes through anintermediate coiled portion of the clasp. The end portions of the claspare of such relative arrangement that they may be readily separated forthe insertion of bills, etc.

Figure 1. is a side elevation of a portion of a sheet provided with theholders, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the sheet showingthe holder in edge elevation.

The device consists of the sheet 1 which is provided at suitableintervals with openings 2. A clasp 3 is located at each opening and isprovided with an intermediate coiled portion 4 which lies in the opening2. The thread or similar securing device 5 is attached at its ends tothe sheet 1 and passes through the coiled portion 4 of the clasp andserves as a means for preventing the coiled portion of the clasp frombecoming displaced with relation to the sheet and the opening 2 thereofwithin which it is located. The end portions 6, 6 of the clasp 3 extendin the same general direction and are adapted to bear against oppositesides of the sheet 1,- while the end portions 6, 6 are of substantiallythe same configuration they are reversely disposed in lateral areasincluded within their perimeters. That is to say, while they liedirectly opposite each other throughout the greater portions of theirareas they each have an end portion which extends beyond the edge of theopposite portion. The said projecting end portions are designated as 7.

The clasps 3 are preferably made of spring wire which possessessu'l'licient resiliency to permit of the introduction of bills orsimilar documents between either of the end portions 6 and the sides ofthe sheet 1. Thus the said sheet 1 may serve at both of its sides as ameans for holding the bills and the clasps serve in common as means forholding the bills against opposite sides of the sheet. By such anarrangement a sheet may be divided by printed or imaginary lines into anumber of spaces within each of which is located an opening 2 and aclasp 8. When bills are alphabetically or otherwise systematicallybunched or bundled they may be inserted under the end portions oi theclasps within the respective spaces upon the sheet 1. and thus held uponthe sheet in systematic order.

The advantage gained in having the end portion 6 of the clasps 3provided with the projecting end portions 7 which extend beyond theedges of the opposite end portions is that the finger of one hand may beplaced against the sheet 1 directly over the projecting end 7 at thereverse side of the sheet when the finger of the other hand is insertedunder the end 7 upon the obverse side of the sheet and is moved againstthe tension of the clasp in order that the documents may be insertedthereunder; Thus, the portion 6 upon the reverse side of the sheet isprevented from tearing into the sheet when the portion 6 upon theobverse side thereof is swung away from the sheet.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters- Patent is:

A holder comprising a clasp having a coiled intermediate portion withextended end portions, said end portions being of the same contour andeach having a projecting portion disposed laterally beyond the edge ofthe opposite portion, a sheet interposed between my own, have heretoafiixed my signature the end portions and having an operlning in thepresence of two Witnesses.

which receives the coiled portion of the ho er and a securing meansattached to the sheet A KINDWALL- 5 and passing through the coiledportion of the Witnesses:

F. A. LEANDER holder.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as O. E. LARSON.

